by ezs | Dec 15, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – UK U-turns into severe lockdown for London and SE. I can’t find the words to understand the last minute “escape from London” mentality – as folk try and beat the deadline.
Numbers from The Seattle Times again – format changed up a little.
Friday – UK looks to be in the grip of a more transmissible mutation. Rt increases. Hoping the vaccines still effective – but runaway cases.
Thursday – Oh UK – your cases and hospitalisation is picking up again. From The Guardian.
Wednesday – UK reporting COVID mutation, with unknown results against the various vaccines. WA changes guidance on school re-opening – perhaps January/February?
Tuesday – NHS under extreme pressure. UK cases pick up again, after peaking and declining. First vaccines in Seattle given at UW. This certainly feels like the end of the beginning.
Monday – first vaccines have been given in the US. It’ll be a year and more to vaccinate the US or the UK. Sandra Lindsay will be the answer to a trivia question in the future.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Dec 8, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – it’s Saturday and the graph from The Seattle Times is grim reading. Average number of positive cases >3000 per day for a few days. Positive cases >12.5%. We were doing so well. Is this “mask and isolation and lockdown” fatigue – or just the follow on from Thanksgiving where it seemed like everyone travelled.
Friday – Hanukkah, Christmas – following on from Thanksgiving. Flu season. Lots to be really concerned about. Vaccines are being approved. Vaccines are being withdrawn for more testing.
Thursday – US recordbreaking deaths – 3000 in one 24 hour period.
Wednesday – The US cumulative cases curve isn’t slowing down..
Tuesday – UK starts vaccinations. The beginning of the end? Perhaps. More closures and restrictions to come. Margaret Keenan, William Shakespeare first and second on the NHS.
Monday – week 39. Is this still “lockdown” – yes. It’s been nine months of social distancing, working from home, near zero normal social activity (football, movies, eating out). What we have done has been just us, masks on, six+ feet apart.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Nov 30, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – Discussion is moving to “how to promote vaccine adoption” – and breaking through the antivax/COVID hoax rhetoric, as well as reaching to BIPOC communities that have been historically underserved and abused by the medical professions. Tough message to land.
Washington State still seeing record positive cases per day, and a steady uptick in deaths and hospitalisation.
Friday – full steam ahead for vaccine production. Rollouts starting across many countries this month. Even with “500M doses in a year” – it’s going to be a long slog.
Thursday – Italy record deaths. Biden will launch “masks for 100 days”.
Wednesday – vaccine rollout starts in Russia. Germany extends lockdown to mid January.
Tuesday – Washington State notification app goes live.
Monday – Record deaths across the globe; following the surge and hospitalisations.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Nov 25, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – no end to the positive cases in Washington. As always weekend graphic from The Seattle Times.
Friday – positive tests spiking at around 20% in parts of Washington State. That is alarming.
Thursday – Thanksgiving Day. 3M+ travelled.
Wednesday – 60M global cases, vast numbers of US cases. Records broken across the globe.
Tuesday – Italy and Spain hit hard again. UK and French lockdowns easing.
Monday – today Russia with peak cases. 12% positive test rate in Washington State.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Nov 20, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Azure Resource Graph explorer is awesome.
Here’s my running list of useful queries.
Resources, by name, subscription name, resource group and location. Switch out the “where” for the resource type. e.g. microsoft.compute/virtualmachines
Resources
| join kind=leftouter (ResourceContainers | where type==’microsoft.resources/subscriptions’ | project SubName=name, subscriptionId) on subscriptionId
| where type =~ ‘Microsoft.network/loadbalancers’
| project name, SubName, resourceGroup, location
Linux machines, including appliance MarketPlace identifiers (i.e. CentOS, SLES, RHEL)
Resources
| join kind=leftouter (ResourceContainers | where type==’microsoft.resources/subscriptions’ | project SubName=name, subscriptionId) on subscriptionId
| where type =~ ‘Microsoft.compute/virtualmachines’
| where properties.storageProfile.osDisk.osType =~ ‘Linux’
| project name, SubName, resourceGroup, location, properties.storageProfile.imageReference.offer
by ezs | Nov 17, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – 200k cases per day; holiday travel is surging.
Weekly data from The Seattle Times. That positive test rate at >10% – ouch.
Friday – COVID tests spiking at 20% positive in King County. Trump Jr has COVID. Testing before Thanksgiving leads to huge lines.
UK cases may have plateaued; here come the hospitalisations and then the deaths. Compare with Monday.
Thursday – positive tests stop Brexit negotiations. “Don’t travel for Thanksgiving” – which is being widely ignored.
Wednesday – 250k deaths in the US. That’s 4 Vietnam wars.
Tuesday – “Trump administration has checked out”, US COVID cases continue to accelerate.
Monday – talking with friends about the last 36 weeks about “lockdown”: no school (all from home), no work (all from home), seen friends twice (socially distanced, wearing masks, outside), been outside the town a handful of times (to collect flour and visit Orcas Island for some isolated time away). This has not been normal, it’s not been with people. Our bubble of four has has had near zero contact with anyone else.
Today the talk has been around vaccines. A second encouraging report. UK numbers look dreadful.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Nov 10, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – 2142 cases in WA yesterday; way about the March/July peaks. Positive test rate is heading to 5.7% and above. 184k new cases in the US on Friday. Europe-wide lockdowns are returning. Trump says “vaccine ready, except for New York”. Five more months of “severe” restrictions. WA heading back to tighter lockdown.
The Seattle Times has the weekly graph of State-wide data. It’s not looking good. 2000+ cases and more seem to be on the cards. This is heading into Thanksgiving.
Friday – Gov Inslee urges WA residents to not travel for Thanksgiving. This is likely to be the next super-spreader holiday weekend. This is a cool visualisation from GA Tech. I worry it’s got “yellow, so it’s safe”.. 150k cases in the US yesterday. That’s a run rate of 1M per week.
Thursday – those UK curves. Ouch. Graphs from The Guardian. Cases peaked, hospitals filling, deaths following along behind.
Wednesday – 1 million cases in Texas, 1 million new US cases in the last nine days. On track for 1M+ cases per week – with the associated hospitalisation and deaths. Locally in Washington State the positive case numbers are up dramatically but hospitals and deaths are still lagging (i.e. flat). Graphs from The Seattle Times.
Tuesday – the deaths lag the hospital intake, which lags the positive cases. England & Wales death tolls jumps 41%
Monday – Biden transition announces COVID-19 Task Force. Positive news on vaccines. “Back to normal by Spring 2021”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Nov 3, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – US setting the pace for a million new cases per week. Shocking, sad, not unexpected. Washington State – big spike in numbers. The White House continues to spread coronavirus. Melbourne relaxes the lockdown (which seems to have worked).
From The Seattle Times – the regular weekly status. That spike is going to be brutal. Hospital capacity is still good – but the spike in testing is the early indicator.
Friday – while most of the news continues to focus on election counts, the infections keep coming. US setting records for daily new cases. I would not be surprised to see some huge spikes in 5-14 days from long lines waiting to vote.
Thursday – the steadily increasing number of global cases, followed by the lagging hospitalisation, followed by the deaths. Europe, USA, Brazil.
Wednesday – post election. Record breaking local Washington State coronavirus cases. England lockdown starts tomorrow, panic buying and last minute socialising.
Tuesday – election day in the US. COVID related news intertwined with election news. Mask wearing while voting is now a partisan issue :\
Monday – Argentina importing 10M Russian vaccines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Oct 30, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – Numbers and reports from around the US and Europe continue to show a massive rise in positive tests, associated hospitalisation and the final lagging indicator, death.
Washington State numbers from The Seattle Times. Daily cases up, 800+ per day – that’s approaching the July peak. Hospitalisation and death are still relatively stable.
Friday – 91k US cases in the last 24 hours. 24k UK cases. This is the “new normal” as we head deeper into this phase of infection. “Save Christmas” lockdown.
Thursday – EU moving patients across borders to keep hospitals going.
Wednesday – France, Germany, Greece.
Tuesday – Talk of a new England-wide lockdown.
Monday – There is a risk this becomes a list of countries with record breaking infection. Portugal, Czechia, Belgium, Italy, UK, most of the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Oct 19, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Slightly changing the title of the post to reflect this is week 32 of working from home; week 43 of 2020.
Weekend – Victoria, Australia flaring up again. UK urging “fresh air”, and this in the Seattle Times about Friluftsliv.
Weekly graph for Washington State, from the Seattle Times.
Friday – “3M cases in Spain” – 3x reported number. Multiple lockdowns across Europe. 80k + daily cases in the US.
That UK curve.
Thursday – Curfew and lockdown orders across Europe. US State numbers growing.
Wednesday – So many European countries in escalating cases. UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy.
Tuesday – Manchester/NW England facing lockdown enforcement.
Monday – 40M global cases. “Tsunami” of cases in Belgium and across Europe. 48 US States with increasing cases.
I found this too: https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
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